Current Students

• Saptarshi Bhowmik (PHD), Fall 2017 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: IPCCC21b, ISLS21, IPDPSw21, ICS20, SC20 poster, SC19
  • Others:
    • Internship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Summer 2019
    • Internship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Summer 2018
• Mohammad Mohsen Gavahi (PHD), Fall 2017 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: IPCCC21a, UTEACH21, IPDPS21, Cluster19
  • Others:
• Abu Naser (PHD, co-advise with Prof. Zhi Wang), Fall 2018 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: IPCCC21a, IPDPS21, Cluster19
  • Others: Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 2021
• Ram Sharan Chaulagain (PHD), Summer 2018 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: SC20 poster
  • Others:
    • Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 2019
    • Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 2020
• Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani, Fall 2019 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: IPCCC21a, IPDPS21
  • Others:
• Rubayet Rahman Rongon (PHD), Spring 2021 -
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers:
  • Others:
• Tusher Chandra Mondol (PHD), Fall 2021 -
  • Journal papers:
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Former PhD Students

• Zaid Salamah A Alzaid, PHD, Fall 2020
  • Dissertation title: Improve the Interconnection Network Architecture for Future Supercomputers
  • First employment: Assistant Professor, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Islamic University of Madinah (Saudi Arabia)
  • Journal papers: TPDS17a
  • Conference papers: IPDPSw21, ICS20
  • Others:
• Md Shafayat Rahman, PHD, Fall 2019
  • Dissertation title: Topology Aware Routing Techniques for Next Generation Interconnect Networks
  • First Employment: Amazon
  • Journal papers: TOPC19, TMSCS18
  • Conference papers: SC19, ICPP18, CCGRID18, PMBS17, HotI17, HotI16
  • Others:
    • Internship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Summer 2014.
    • Winner, FSU CSD Graduate Student Research Conference, 2017
• Md Atiqul Mollah, PHD, Spring 2018
  • Dissertation title: Modeling and Comparison of Large-Scale Interconnect Designs
  • First employment: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Oakland University
  • Last known employment (Fall 2018): Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Oakland University
  • Journal papers: TOPC19, TMSCS18, TPDS17a, TPDS17b
  • Conference papers: ICPP18, CCGRID18, PMBS17, SC17, HotI17, HotI16, IPDPS16b, CLUSTER15
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to CCGrid 2018
    • Student travel grant to ACM HotSDN 2015
    • Student travel grant to IEEE Cluster 2015
    • Internship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer 2013, Summer 2015
• Peyman Faizian, PHD, Spring 2018
  • Dissertation title: Design and Evaluation of Networking Techniques for the Next Generation Interconnection Networks
  • First employment: Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of North Florida
  • Last known employment (Fall 2018): Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of North Florida
  • Journal papers: TOPC19, TMSCS18, TPDS17a
  • Conference papers: ICPP18, CCGRID18, PMBS17, SC17, HotI17, HotI16, IPDPS16b
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to IEEE HOTI 2016
    • Student travel grant to IEEE IPDPS 2016
    • Winner, FSU CSD Graduate Student Research Conference, 2015
• Zhou Tong, PhD, Fall 2017.
  • Dissertation title: Improving the effectiveness of performance analysis for HPC by using appropriate modeling and simulation schemes
  • First employment: SessionM Inc.
  • Last known employment (July 2019): Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wheaton College (Boston)
  • Journal papers: JPDC18,
  • Conference papers: IPDPS18, SC17 SC16 Poster, SC16, IPDPS16a, SC15 Poster,
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2016
    • Student travel grant to IEEE IPDPS 2016
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2015
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2014
    • Internship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Summer 2016.
• Wickus Nienaber, PhD, Spring 2014.
  • Dissertation title: Effective Routing on Fat-tree Topologies
  • First employment: Captiveyes Inc.
  • Last Known employment: Bloomberg
  • Journal papers: TOPC15, TON09, TPDS08
  • Conference papers: SC13, CASS12, CASS11, ANCS07, SIGMETRICS07
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to ACM ANCS 2007
• Santosh Mahapatra, PhD, Summer 2013.
  • Dissertation title: Routing Algorithms for the Emerging Topologies in HPC and Data Center Networks
  • First employment: Riverbed Technology
  • Last Known employment: Riverbed Technology
  • Journal papers: TOPC15, JPDC14,
  • Conference papers: IPDPS14, SC13, CASS13, CASS12, CASS11, CEWIT10
  • Others:
    • Internship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fall 2012.
• Zheng Gu, PhD, Summer 2013.
  • Dissertation title: Efficient and Robust Message Passing Schemes for RDMA-Enabled Clusters
  • First employment: Postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Last known employment: Linkedin
  • Journal papers: IJPP13
  • Conference papers: CASS11, ICPP10
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2010
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2011
    • Internship, IBM, Summer 2012
    • Internship, Argonne National Laboratory, Summer 2011
• Matthew Small, PhD, Fall 2012, Webpage.
  • Dissertation title: Optimizing MPI Point-to-Point Communication Performance on RDMA-Enabled SMP-CMP Clusters
  • First employment: College of Education, Florida State University
  • Last known employment: Google
  • Journal papers: IJPP13
  • Conference papers: CLUSTER13, CASS11, ICPP10, ICS09
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to ACM ICS 2009
    • Internship, Los Alamos National Laborary, 2011
• Ahmad Faraj, PhD, Fall 2006.
  • Dissertation title: "Empirical Techniques for Developing Efficient MPI Collective Communication Routines"
  • First employment: IBM
  • Last known employment: Intel
  • Journal papers: JPDC08, IJPP07a, IJPP07, TPDS07
  • Conference papers: ICS07, ICS06, IPDPS06, CLUSTER05, ICS05, ICPP05, IPDPS05, PDCS02, CSI02
  • Others:
    • Student travel grant to ACM SC 2006
    • Student travel grant to ACM ICS 2006

Former MS Students

• Michael Duckett (MS), Fall 2020
  • First employment: FSU
  • Last known employment: FSU
• Wenqi Wang (MS), Spring 2018 (publication: TOPC19)
  • First employment:
  • Last known employment:
• Jason Lee (MS), Fall 2016
  • Thesis: "Enhancing InfiniBand with OpenFlow-Style SDN Capabilty", published at ACM SC'2016.
  • First Employment: General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc
  • Last known employment (Spring 2018): Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Abdullah Raiaan (MS), Summer 2015
  • First Employment: Robert Half (www.roberthalf.com)
• Gaurish Nayak (MS), 2014
  • First Employment: unknown
• Sean Ross, MS, 2013
  • First Employment: Logistic Services International
• Abhishek Ramesh Deshpande, MS, 2012
  • First Employment: AMD
• Youraj Pawar, MS, 2011
  • First Employment: unknown
• Anupan Chansarkar, MS, 2010
  • First Employment: unknown
• Wickus Nienaber, MS, Spring 2007
  • Thesis: "On LID Assignment in Infiniband Networks"
  • First Employment: PhD student, FSU
• Joshua Lawrence, BS, Spring 2007
  • Honor thesis: "An MPI Tool for Discovering the Switch Level Topology in Ethernet Switched Clusters"
  • First Employment: Graduate Student, FSU
• Kannan Sankaran, MS, Summer 2005
  • Topic: "Bypass-Based Optical Routing and Its Evaluation"
  • First Employment: Florida State Government
• Ansari Almas, MS, Summer 2004
  • Topic: "Topology Aggregation for Networks with Multiple Performance Metrics".
  • First Employment: unknown
• Shiling Ding, MS, Summer 2003
  • Topic: "Implementing MPI_Bcast over IP multicast".
  • First Employment: FSU, College of Engineering
• Amit Karwande, MS, Spring 2003
  • Topic: "CC-MPI: A Compiled Communication Capable MPI Prototype for Ethernet Switched Clusters." (paper version published in PPoPP'03 and JPDC)
  • First Employment: Amazon.com
• Kavitha Bangalore, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "A Minimum Interference Hybrid Algorithm for MPLS Networks".
  • First Employment: unknown
• Amhad Faraj, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "Communication Characteristics in the NAS Parallel Benchmarks" (The paper version published in PDCS 2002).
  • First Employment: PhD student, FSU.
• Guang Yang, MS, Fall 2002
  • Topic: "Empirical Probability Based QoS Routing".
  • First Employment: Florida State Government, currently amazon.com
• Xingming Liu, MS, Spring 2002
  • Topic: "Algorithms for Multi-Constrained Quality of Service Routing" (The paper version published in IEEE INFOCOM, 2001).
  • First Employment: unknown
• Jun Zhou, MS, Spring 2002
  • Topic: "Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Imprecise State Information" (The paper version published in ICPP Workshop on Optical Networks, 2002)
  • First Employment: Florida state government
• Amit Fulay, MS, Fall 2001
  • Topic: "A Wavelength Assignment Algorithm to Minimize SONET ADMs" (A preliminary report published in 2001 ICPP Workshop on Optical Networks. The paper version for the final report is published in IEEE ICC2002)
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Wei Zheng, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "A Comparative Study of Quality of Service Routing Schemes That Tolerate Imprecise State Information" (The paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2002)
  • First Employment: Convergys Co., Orlando
• Arif Saifee, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "Path Selection Methods for Localized Quality of Service Routing" (paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2001)
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Nitin Agrawal, MS, Summer 2001
  • Topic: "A Study of Application Layer Adaptation Techniques to Improve Web Performance"
  • First Employment: Microsoft, Redmond.
• Jie Zhang, MS, Spring 2001
  • Topic: "Backward Resource Reservation for Multi-path QoS Routing" (paper version published in IEEE IC3N 2000)
  • First Employment: DataMax Inc., Tallahassee.
• Ryan Lane, MS, Fall 2000
  • Topic: "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Reliable Multicast Protocols over Ethernet-Connected Networks" (paper version published in ICPP 2001)
  • First Employment: Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), Atlanta.
• Hui Ding, MS, Summer 2000
  • Topic: "A Hybrid Resource Reservation Scheme for the Ticket-Based QoS Routing Algorithm" (paper version published in IEEE ICCCN 2000)
  • First Employment: CISCO system, San Jose.
• Yuan Zhong, MS, Fall 1999
  • Topic: "Impact of Resource Reservation on Distributed QoS Routing Algorithms"(paper version published in IwQoS2000)
  • First Employment: Fedex, Information Technology Division, Orlando.
• Paul Shelton, MS, Summer 1999
  • Topic: "An Automatic Account Generator".
  • First Employment: SEI Investment, Philadelphia.

Former BS Students

• Juan Alfaro, BS, Fall 2017.
  • Publication: TMSCS18

Inactive

• Pitch Patarasuk (PhD)
  • Journal papers: JPDC09, JPDC08, IJPP07a, IJPP07, TPDS07
  • Conference papers: IPDPS08, ICS07, HIPS07, IPDPS06, CLUSTER05
  • Others:
    • Winner, FSU CSD Graduate Student Research Conference, 2007
• Joshua Lawrence (PHD)
  • Journal papers:
  • Conference papers: ISSNIP13, SMTPS08
  • Others:
    • Internship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2011-2012.